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Copilot gets more Data Controls, and MVP Jon Jarvis joins to Discuss: Should you Manage all Your Devices with Intune?: The Practical 365 Podcast S4 E15

On Season 4, Episode 15 it's a trio of MVPs, as Steve and Paul are joined by UK MVP Jon Jarvis to discuss Intune & the criticality of making sure you onboard devices. And a show wouldn't be complete with an mention of AI! We discuss a new feature that helps you restrict what Copilot can search and use from your SharePoint sites.

March 15, 2024

Microsoft Takes Steps to Offset Midnight Blizzard Damage

The fallout from the Midnight Blizzard attack against Microsoft continues as Microsoft takes action to harden the security of its own and customer tenants. One step is to retire the EWS Application Impersonation role. This will happen in February 2025 ahead of the retirement of Exchange Web Services in October 2026.

March 11, 2024

Cleaning Out Old Messages from a Team Channel

A question asked about the best way to remove channel messages from Teams. Microsoft 365 retention policies are an option, but you'll have to wait for retention processing to complete. PowerShell helps because you can create a script to remove all messages and replies from a channel. Everything works, but processing is slow, as we discover when we plunge into the details of writing code.

March 6, 2024

Managing the Discoverability of Private Teams

Microsoft has a new approach to control private team discoverability. You can have all-in access by enabling discoverability through Teams policies or granular access by using sensitivity labels to control if private teams are discoverable or not. This article explains how both methods work.

March 4, 2024

Securing Copilot for Microsoft 365

This article examines how Copilot for Microsoft 365 handles protected content, including how it interacts with Microsoft Purview sensitivity labels. Hopefully, this information will help administrators to configure information protection controls and understand their impact in relation to Copilot for Microsoft 365.

February 28, 2024

Stopping Spam Sent from Bad Microsoft 365 Domains

Anecdotal evidence is that some spam originates from onmicrosoft.com domains. These are the domains used by Microsoft 365 tenants and the spam indicates that attackers sign up for 'disposable' tenants to send their malware. This article describes what onmicrosoft.com domains are and how to use a mail flow rule to control their traffic.

February 26, 2024